Scarica james joyce, dubliners e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce (1882-1941) James Joyce was born in Dublin and this influenced his works; and he belonged to the age of modernism. He was one of the most important figures of his age. He defined a new role of the writer, with the use of the interior monologue technique that is the verbal expression of the stream of consciousness; the narrator isn’t omniscient and the story is told from the prospective of a character. He doesn’t want to express his point of view but the point of view of the different characters. With the interior monologue, through which Joyce presents the protagonist’s thoughts, he describes the character’s psychology which is no longer coherent and unitary, but multi-faceted. He uses another new narrative technique: the epiphany. An epiphany is a sudden revelation of an interior reality; actually in Joyce's stories and novels there are a lot of peaks of intensity called by the writer epiphany. Joyce also uses the technique of the manipulation of time and he doesn't respect the chronological order; infact he uses the stream of consciousness in which past, present and future are mixed according to the Freudian mechanism of the association of ideas. Dubliners One of the most important of Joyce’s works is Dubliners. He writes this work during his exile. He wants to give a realistic portrait of ordinary life in Dublin. Dubliners consists of fifteen stories and in each of them there in an ephiphany. The stories are arranged into four groups: the four categories are childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The last story, The Dead, can be considered Joyce’s first masterpiece. The description of the stories is realistic, concise and detailed. He uses realism and disciplined prose with typical rules of grammar. The central theme of the story is Paralysis. The paralysis of Dublin is physical and moral, linked to religion, politics and culture. The other theme is the failure to find a way out of paralysis. The opposite of paralysis is escape and its failure. The linguistic register is varied, because the language should suit the age, the social class and the role of the characters. Eveline Eveline is probably the most famous short story of Dubliners. It belongs to the "adolescence". Joyce tells the story of a young girl who has the opportunity to change her life, taking a decision: to run away with her boyfriend Frank in Buenos Aires and to start a new life with him or to take care of her home and her family as she promised to her mother on her deathbed. At first Eveline seems to choose the new and better life that Frank proposes, but arrived at the port she is unable to board the ship for South America. Here the theme of paralysis is evident, Eveline can not change her life but remains immobile, paralyzed. NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE F 0 A 7Stream of Consciousness, the description of Eveline’s thoughts and emotions dominates the text; most of the “action” takes place inside Eveline's head. The words convey her thoughts, emotions and memories rather than describing a series of events.
